If the image of quiet, contemplative debate seems anachronistic in these vituperative times, the contrast is even more poignant after the Justice's latest decision.
All of these studies show that this field of contemplative science gives us an unconventional way to explore some of our biggest philosophical questions.
An ascetic is one who devotes himself to a solitary and contemplative life, with rigorous discipline of the self, as by celibacy, fasting, and self-mortification.
I am afraid indeed that she will be tempted to become, what I think the less interesting branch of the species—the naturalist-novelist, and not the contemplative.
But through a type of contemplative practice known as non-dual awareness, skilled meditators report feeling their consciousness spreading beyond them, in what some people might call " oneness with the universe."
Soft, mildly, and cheerfully contemplative, with full, red lips, just on the verge of a smile, which the eyes seemed to herald by a gentle kindling-up of their orbs!